精聽建議:
先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍,爭取掌握大意。然后,一句一句精聽,力爭每句話都聽明白。遇到實在不懂的地方,再聽寫。
下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的詞都很簡單,不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發音哦,有些語速比較快。試試看,你能不能全部寫對?
(參考文本,歡迎指出錯誤^^)
Lesson28 Three Jokes
Joke 1
I sold an item through eBay but it got lost in the mail, so I stopped by my local post office and asked them to track it down.“It's not that simple,” the clerk replied.“You have to ___(1)___ a mail-loss form before we can initiate a search.” "Okay,” I said.“I'll take one.” He searched his counter, and then went to ask some other clerks, who did the same - only to return and confess,“You'll have to ___(2)___ later. We can't find the forms.”
Joke 2
A couple of hours into a visit with my mother she noticed I hadn't ___(3)___a cigarette once.“Are you trying to ___(4)___ ?” “No,” I replied,“I've got a cold and I don't smoke when I'm not feeling well.” “You know," she observed,"you'd probably live longer if you were sick more often."
Joke 3
Kids have a greater need for speed than classroom computers can deliver.Impatient to turn in his term paper, one restless student kept clicking the "Print” command. The printer started to ___(5)___copy after copy of the kid's ten-page report. The topic? “Save Our Trees.”
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